Storage

Overview

• Storage/Stack: a stack is the basic element to store items.
• Chests: the most obvious storage.
  • smart chest
  • logistic chests
    • usage of the storage chest
• Vehicle: vehicles can store a significant amount of items
  • Car: the car has a very huge inventory
  • Cargo wagon: stores about 1000 resource-items.
• Transport belts: The amount of items on a transport belt can be astonishing high, calculate with 7 items per tile! Especially at train stations and in production streets this must be taken into account. Splitters and underground belts can be also used as storage. Splitters have a special behavior, which makes them well useable as storage at train stations (fast in, slow out), while underground belts don't take away space.

Layout types

Simple buffers

• belt, inserter, chest
• limit number of stored items (stack reduction & circuit network)
• splitter cascade

Production buffers

• belts
• chests with stack reduction
• chests with circuit network
• logistic network

Other buffers with logistic networks

• Storage/Production buffers: layouts, examples

Related

• Inserters

Nearby

• Inserters
• Storage/Stack

Special behavior

• Logistic network/Meaning of negative numbers
• Storage/Wagon/Using as "big chest"
• Storage/Mining full chest, if own inventory is full: this is no good idea. :))

See also

• Transport network
  • Belt transport system
• Crafting network
• Logistic network